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The Beacon
Free civic resource and discovery infrastructure.
Companion civic system
LocalCircuit
Local participation, connection, and circulation infrastructure.
Grounding mission
The St. Pete Revival
The civic mission behind both systems.
Immediate access
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Start here for urgent information and everyday essentials. These paths take you directly to the resources you may need most.
Emergency & Safety
Urgent safety information, emergency resources, and active alerts.
Health & Crisis Support
Clinics, mental health support, crisis resources, and wellness services.
Food & Essentials
Food assistance, meal programs, groceries, and everyday essentials.
Housing & Shelter
Shelters, rental support, housing assistance, and places to turn.
Getting Around
Transit, transportation help, road information, and mobility resources.
Power, Water & Utilities
Outages, utility assistance, sanitation, water, and essential services.
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Where do you wantto go?
Use Beacon by intention, not bureaucracy. Choose what you need, what you want to do, or what you want to understand.
Get HelpRight Now
Food, shelter, health, transportation, utilities, emergency information, and other essential help.
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What'sHappening
Markets, meetings, music, culture, community events, and ways to get out into St. Pete.
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Work, Learn &Grow
Jobs, grants, business help, education, workshops, and opportunities around the city.
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What's Changingin St. Pete
Important city updates, notices, local developments, infrastructure news, and community wins.
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Local Business Codex
Keep itlocal.
Discover independently owned St. Pete businesses reviewed and organized to make finding local options easier.
Built for independent St. Pete
Explore St. Petersburg
Come looking for one thing.Find three more.
Beacon is built to be useful when you know exactly what you need — and worth exploring when you don't.
Your city, illuminated
Find the places you know.Discover the ones you don't.
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What's Happening
Markets, music, arts, meetings, pop-ups, and community events.
Know your city
City Pulse
Important notices, infrastructure updates, local changes, and community wins.
Your next move
Work, Learn & Grow
Jobs, grants, business resources, education, and workshops.
Keep it local
Find Local Business
Explore independent businesses across St. Petersburg.
From The Beacon
The Beacon is free to use, open to the public, and intentionally clear. No rankings. No comment fights. No endless noise.
The Beacon: St. Pete
Why Beacon feels different
Less noise.More signal.
Human reviewed
Submissions are reviewed before publishing so Beacon can stay useful and easier to trust.
Signal over noise
Beacon is designed to help you reach useful information without forcing you through endless content.
Built around St. Pete
Local resources, businesses, events, opportunities, and city information live together in one place.
Help keep the light on
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Beacon gets better when the community helps keep information accurate, timely, and complete.
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Help an independently owned St. Pete business become easier to discover.
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Grounded by the St. Pete Revival
A clearer city is easierto participate in.
The Beacon is the free civic resource layer of a broader mission to strengthen local access, connection, participation, and circulation throughout St. Petersburg.